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Pastry Cream

Here's how you make Pastry Cream
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  • Servings: 2
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 15m
  • The following recipe serves 2 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 cups half and half
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • Salt, pinch
  • 5 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 6 egg yolks (large)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: In a medium saucepan, bring cream, sugar, vanilla, salt, cornstarch and egg yolks to a boil whisking constantly with a wire whisk. Reduce heat slightly and continue to simmer for 1 minute, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon to get in the corners.

  • Step 2: Take the saucepan off the heat and plunge it into an ice-water bath or, if you have lumps, strain it through a sieve into a pan or heatproof bowl set in ice water.

  • Step 3: If not using the pastry cream hot, place a sheet of plastic wrap on the surface of the pastry cream which is cooling in the ice-water bath. Cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days. Use in recipes calling for pastry cream


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